Digital technology offers the chance to get peer-reviewed information out to professionals much more quickly, writes Sandra Campbell-Crofts. Publication of contemporary nursing knowledge is important for the translation of this knowledge to the clinical arena. The speed of access and ...

Institutes and colleges were set up to train people and fulfil community service obligations; unfortunately the latter is now disappearing.  By Lawrence Angus. The public vocational education and training (VET) sector has been under attack in Victoria since the days ...

Melbourne University has developed a system to give a clearer picture of higher education around the world by including information such as what resources are put into universities. By Ross Williams. While there are any number of well-regarded global rankings ...

Tertiary education minister Senator Chris Evans has tried to provide reassurance amid speculation that the federal government’s commitment to the public provision of skills training is faltering. In an interview with Campus Review, Evans said he was concerned that vocational ...

The new standards framework may make student charters an important means to protect an individual’s rights to quality higher education. By Lenore Cooper. Student charters have been widely adopted by Australian universities as a mechanism for setting out the mutual ...

The removal of price controls on vocational education and training, such as in Victoria, has sparked a race to be the cheapest. By Leesa Wheelahan. In Victoria, TAFE will lose approximately $290 million of funding in 2013. The Victorian government ...

Public providers have to concentrate on areas where they have a competitive advantage and make room for private operators, writes Rohan Cresp. Every parrot in the TAFE pet shop is chattering the same mantra: TAFE in Victoria is soon to ...

Online education is a great idea but it has its limitations, just like internet games, you can’t beat the touchy-feely experience, writes Richard Hil It’s 2025 and emeritus professors Stone and Wall are walking through the once resplendent inner city ...

If society is ready to subsidise contraception for young mums it should also help with their education, writes Stuart Middleton. The New Zealand government is to introduce a program whereby young mothers, teen mums, can get long-lasting but reversible contraception ...

 Allowing teachers to be educated in practical wisdom will benefit students and society, writes Neil Hooley.  Much of the debate these days regarding schooling, teaching and learning takes place within a political and economic context that assumes its imperatives can ...